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The Bumpy Little Pumpkin
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 978-0-545-08175-7 HC
Ages 9-12
160 pages
5 ½’ x 8 ¼’

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The Bumpy Little Pumpkin
by Angie Frazier

It is 1905 and young Suzanna works at her family’s inn in Loch Harbor, New Brunswick, where she is trained to be a well-mannered hostess and a charming lady. Suzanna has other ideas for her future, however—she wants to be a detective like her famous uncle, Bruce Snow from Boston, who regularly makes headlines in the newspapers for solving hard-to-crack cases. This summer seems typical enough for Suzanna until a young guest goes missing on a stormy summer night. When no clues turn up, Bruce Snow arrives to solve the case. But Suzanna learns that not everything is as it seems. With a little help from her friends, can she solve the mystery of the missing girl before her uncle gives up?

Fast-paced, absorbing, and wonderfully rich, The Midnight Tunnel: A Suzanna Snow Mystery is sure to keep readers following the clues until the case has been solved.


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Excerpt from THE MIDNIGHT TUNNEL: A SUZANNA SNOW MYSTERY
by Angie Frazier

Chapter Five

Detective Rule: Write down notable events and their details before falling asleep. Memories go soft after a few hours of shut eye.

The first rays of morning streamed into my bedroom. I lay on my stomach in bed, my pencil hovering above the blank sheet of notebook paper, my pillows acting as a desk. I didn’t have the pep to get out from under the quilt and walk to the real, walnut desk across the room. I remembered skinny legs and flashing lightning…a watery trail across the linoleum…but I couldn’t remember if I’d seen any solid footprints or any other details at all.

Maybe it had been another one of the younger employees. There were at least a handful of girls and boys Lucy’s age who could have found the chaos of the storm the perfect time to sneak out without Mrs. Babbitt catching them. I closed my eyes and shook my head, frustrated. Go out into driving rain and lightning and thunder for fun? That theory didn’t make any sense.


From The Midnight Tunnel. Copyright © 2011 by Angie Frazier. All rights reserved.